redefining failure

The men who try to do something,and fail are infinitely betterthan those who try nothing and succeed.

— Lloyd Jones

The only man who never makes a mistakeis the man who never does anything.

— Theodore Roosevelt

One hundred percentof the shots you don’t takedon’t go in.

— Wayne Gretzky

A child becomes an adultwhen he realizes that he has a rightnot only to be rightbut also to be wrong.

— Thomas Szasz

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

— James Joyce

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,but in rising up every time we fail.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one guaranteed formula for failure,and that is to try to please everyone.

— Will Rogers

Only those who dare to fail greatlycan ever achieve greatly.Robert Francis Kennedy

— Robert Francis Kennedy

Freedom is not worth havingif it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only time you don’t failis the last time you try anything— and it works.

— William Strong

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.You won’t have time to make them all yourself.

— Alfred Sheinwold

There are two kinds of failures:those who thought and never did,and those who did and never thought.

— Dr. Laurence J. Peter

The last time you failed,did you stop trying because you failed— or did you fail because you stopped trying?

— C. S. Lewis

It’s easy to stop making mistakes.Just stop having ideas.

— unknown

Failure!There is no such word in all the bright lexicon of speech,unless you yourself have written it there!There is no such thing as failureexcept to those who accept and believe in failure.

— Orison Swett Morden

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions:could have, might have, and should have.

— Louis E. Boone

You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose,for this thing we call failure is not the falling down,but the staying down.

— Mary Pickford

We have forty million reasons for failure,but not a single excuse.

— Rudyard Kipling

He who has never failed somewhere…that man can not be great.

— Herman Melville

You may be disappointed if you fail,but you are doomed if you don’t try.

— Beverly Sills

Use missteps as stepping stonesto deeper understanding and greater achievement.

— Susan Taylor

The saddest failures in lifeare those that come from not putting forththe power and will to succeed.

— Edwin Whipple

A man who has committed a mistakeand doesn’t correct it,is committing another mistake.

— Confucius

Failure is success if we learn from it.

— Malcomb S. Forbes

The man who makes no mistakesdoes not usually make anything.

— Edward Phelps

Your life would be very emptyif you had nothing to regret.

— Vincent Van Gogh

From error to error,one discovers the entire truth.

— Sigmund Freud

Life’s real failure is when you do not realizehow close you were to success when you gave up.

— unknown

It is better to fail in originalitythan to succeed in imitation.

— Herman Melville

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

— Vince Lombardi

We learn wisdom from failuremuch more than we do from success.We often discover what will doby finding out what will not do,and probably he who never made a mistakenever made a discovery.

— Samuel Smiles

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

— Anthony J. D’Angelo

A life spent making mistakesis not only more honorable but more usefulthan a life spent doing nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes,only with more finesse!

— Derwood Fincher

There are no mistakes.The events we bring upon ourselves,no matter how unpleasant,are necessary in order to learnwhat we need to learn;whatever steps we take,they’re necessary to reachthe places we’ve chosen to go.

— Richard Bach

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.Giving up is what makes it permanent.

— Marilyn Vos Savant

In order to succeed you must fail,so that you know what not to do the next time.

— Anthony J. D’Angelo

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

— Josephus Daniels

You always pass failure on the way to success.

— Mickey Rooney

In the game of life it’s a good ideato have a few early losses,which relieves you of the pressureof trying to maintain an undefeated season.

— Bill Vaughan

Only those who dare to fail greatlycan ever achieve greatly.

— Robert F. Kennedy

Far better is it to dare mighty things,to win glorious triumphs,even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spiritswho neither enjoy much nor suffer much,because they live in a gray twilightthat knows not victory nor defeat.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Tis a lesson you should heed,try, try again.If at first you don’t succeed,try, try again.

— W. E. Hickson

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward.They may be beaten,but they may start a winning game.

— Goethe

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

— Arthur Calwell

Lack of will power has caused more failurethan lack of intelligence or ability.

— Flower A. Newhouse

There is but one cause of human failure,and that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.